![]() The ten commandments of the Alt Right overgrowing it’s numbering scheme? I don’t want to dismiss it just because it looks on the surface like a haphazardly thrown together list of n points about some en-vogue topic of the week in Huffpo or the like. Where is the philosophy in these 16 points? Where is the study of the fundamental nature of … anything … here? And 16 points? Come on. ![]() Or tomorrow.Let’s turn the heat on right from the start: Vox Day announces this as a basis for a core Alt Right philosophy. There will be no mass takeover of the comic book industry by a tiny cadre of rabid puppies today. There is nothing for us in Beale’s mentally masturbatory comic books. Sometimes it’s about horror, or combat, or mystery, but at the root of all of that is the return to humanity that makes all these adventures worthwhile. His message will not spread beyond this fanatical core.Ĭomic books, like most of the stuff Fandom loves, are about hope for the most part. Despite getting his money, his message will resonate only with the thousand or so backers in what amounts to a backwater echo chamber, because only they will see it. This time, though, Beale has massively screwed up. Now we know.īeale’s / Vox Day’s attempt to hijack the Hugo Awards looked and felt like an attempt to steal validation for his ideas from a public body known for being one of the prime bellwethers of public opinion in fandom. We were wondering what Beale would do once his Castilia House takeover of the Hugo Awards belly flopped. Support Alt?Hero if you want to see Kamala Khan, aka Ms Marvel, deported. One of the tweets from Vox Day (his monicker on Twitter is “Supreme Dark Lord,” that should tell you something important about him right there) shows Kamala Khan crying because Trump is going to have her deported. With a single line of comic books, Beale believes he is going to erase generations of work by the major publishers and “set things right”. We can’t help but note the hubris in this statement. They have been methodically eradicating traditional values, they have been methodically eradicating Western civilization.” ![]() Marvel it ain’t.īeale states in this Periscope video that he “intends to challenge and eventually replace the SJW (short for ‘social justice warrior’) converged comics of DC and Marvel … they believe that comics is their turf, and SJWs have been moving forward, advancing for decades. He may actually be able to go to press with his comics, but it’s not very likely that anybody outside of the donor group will actually want copies of them. Since his Alt*Hero comic is pretty much guaranteed not to be picked up by Diamond Comics Distributors because of its mindlessly racist content, Beale’s options are limited, and for much the same reasons he couldn’t put his project on a major crowdfunding platform. While Beale has apparently gotten himself over $128k in support for his project, there’s a problem: he has less than 1500 backers. There are some odd mathematics going on here as well. The initial goal was met in just four hours! #AltHero #DailyMemeWars /dyxMb9aK3t Thanks to all of the Alt?Hero backers who made these comics possible. Anybody? Beuller? Beuller? All in all, it’s not great, but it’s not bad. ![]() Anybody believes this was legit, raise your hands. $25,000 in four hours, from five backers. This would be in keeping with the goal of the entire project, so we would not be surprised at all if it were later discovered that these initial backers were all fake accounts. There were really people standing in line with $5,000 checks waiting for him to launch? When something like this happens, it’s intended to make you question your world view and make you wonder if there aren’t a whole lot more haters out there than you thought there were. Most of them are marked as private, so we can’t know whether they are legitimate backers or fake accounts meant to quickly and improbably push the campaign over its funding goal. The goal was met by the contributions of just five backers. His characters smoke, violently hunt undocumented immigrants, and dress in versions of the Confederate flag. Still, his comic book series has quickly surpassed its $25,000 fundraising goal. He’s put his campaign on a crowdfunding site that goes out of its way to state that it does not block projects based on hate speech (Patreon, Kickstarter and GoFundMe all have rules against doing this).
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